LOWDOWN Winter 2009 page 20
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BIT OF HISTORY
“THE BASSET HOUND CLUB ARCHIVE”
I have been entrusted by the Chairman and committee of the BHC to store and catalogue the club’s archive. The term archive suggest something a little grander than the actual reality of a couple of stuffed cardboard boxes collected from Michael’s Cowbeech home.
Left: The pack’s van with uniformed Huntsmaster John Evans, Right: Menu for BHC dinner/dance 1968.
Hounds in Snow.
Though seemingly modest, the boxes contained some real gems. Perhaps the items of greatest interest to breed historians are two albums which contain original pedigrees from the Grims Kennel and photographs of the hounds. The formidable Miss Peggy Keevil’s Grims Kennel almost single handedly kept the breed going in the difficult years before and immediately after World War II. By contrast, there is also some
Everett Millais’ Garenne (note massive collar)
interesting ephemera, lovely illustrated old menus for club dinner dances, and unposed photographs of the club’s pack, the Albany. In future issues of LOWDOWN I hope to share some of these wonderful items with you.
On the 31st October 2013 the presence of this page on our website was called into question during a telephone conversation with the then Acting Vice Chairman of the Basset Hound Club as, in her words it "contained Basset Hound Club archive material".
But does it?
What we have here is an article written in 2009 by the editor of Lowdown (who incidentally is still the editor of Lowdown and we hope will continue to be as we move forward with our new club) in which he uses illustrations copied from items from some cardboard boxes handed to him by the then Chairman of the Basset Hound Club (who incidentally is to be the founding President of the Basset Hound Owners Club) containing a large jumble of ephemera much of which he himself had collected over the preceding forty plus years of his association with the Club (for the wole of that time he was Treasurer of the South East Branch and for some fifteen years he was also Chairman of the Club itself).
Some years later following a request from the Basset Hound Club the cardboard boxes were generously handed to the committee of the Basset Hound Club. Apparently Michael's generous gift now (31/10/13) languishes beneath the bed of the Acting Vice Chairman.
I have been entrusted by the Chairman and committee of the BHC to store and catalogue the club’s archive. The term archive suggest something a little grander than the actual reality of a couple of stuffed cardboard boxes collected from Michael’s Cowbeech home.
Left: The pack’s van with uniformed Huntsmaster John Evans, Right: Menu for BHC dinner/dance 1968.
Hounds in Snow.
Though seemingly modest, the boxes contained some real gems. Perhaps the items of greatest interest to breed historians are two albums which contain original pedigrees from the Grims Kennel and photographs of the hounds. The formidable Miss Peggy Keevil’s Grims Kennel almost single handedly kept the breed going in the difficult years before and immediately after World War II. By contrast, there is also some
Everett Millais’ Garenne (note massive collar)
interesting ephemera, lovely illustrated old menus for club dinner dances, and unposed photographs of the club’s pack, the Albany. In future issues of LOWDOWN I hope to share some of these wonderful items with you.
On the 31st October 2013 the presence of this page on our website was called into question during a telephone conversation with the then Acting Vice Chairman of the Basset Hound Club as, in her words it "contained Basset Hound Club archive material".
But does it?
What we have here is an article written in 2009 by the editor of Lowdown (who incidentally is still the editor of Lowdown and we hope will continue to be as we move forward with our new club) in which he uses illustrations copied from items from some cardboard boxes handed to him by the then Chairman of the Basset Hound Club (who incidentally is to be the founding President of the Basset Hound Owners Club) containing a large jumble of ephemera much of which he himself had collected over the preceding forty plus years of his association with the Club (for the wole of that time he was Treasurer of the South East Branch and for some fifteen years he was also Chairman of the Club itself).
Some years later following a request from the Basset Hound Club the cardboard boxes were generously handed to the committee of the Basset Hound Club. Apparently Michael's generous gift now (31/10/13) languishes beneath the bed of the Acting Vice Chairman.
I have been entrusted by the Chairman and committee of the BHC to store and catalogue the club’s archive. The term archive suggest something a little grander than the actual reality of a couple of stuffed cardboard boxes collected from Michael’s Cowbeech home.
Left: The pack’s van with uniformed Huntsmaster John Evans, Right: Menu for BHC dinner/dance 1968.
Hounds in Snow.
Though seemingly modest, the boxes contained some real gems. Perhaps the items of greatest interest to breed historians are two albums which contain original pedigrees from the Grims Kennel and photographs of the hounds. The formidable Miss Peggy Keevil’s Grims Kennel almost single handedly kept the breed going in the difficult years before and immediately after World War II. By contrast, there is also some
Everett Millais’ Garenne (note massive collar)
interesting ephemera, lovely illustrated old menus for club dinner dances, and unposed photographs of the club’s pack, the Albany. In future issues of LOWDOWN I hope to share some of these wonderful items with you.
On the 31st October 2013 the presence of this page on our website was called into question during a telephone conversation with the then Acting Vice Chairman of the Basset Hound Club as, in her words it "contained Basset Hound Club archive material".
But does it?
What we have here is an article written in 2009 by the editor of Lowdown (who incidentally is still the editor of Lowdown and we hope will continue to be as we move forward with our new club) in which he uses illustrations copied from items from some cardboard boxes handed to him by the then Chairman of the Basset Hound Club (who incidentally is to be the founding President of the Basset Hound Owners Club) containing a large jumble of ephemera much of which he himself had collected over the preceding forty plus years of his association with the Club (for the wole of that time he was Treasurer of the South East Branch and for some fifteen years he was also Chairman of the Club itself).
Some years later following a request from the Basset Hound Club the cardboard boxes were generously handed to the committee of the Basset Hound Club. Apparently Michael's generous gift now (31/10/13) languishes beneath the bed of the Acting Vice Chairman.
first published in LOWDOWN
editor Tony Roberts